Unit 0_Review of the content

Today we’ve started revising the communicative aspects of English to make gradual progress on the long journey that is learning a language.

This summer we’ve been working on each skill a little bit every week, but now that my children are finishing primary school and already have a good grasp of English at A2 (2) level, we need to step up our focus on communication and communicative autonomy.

We don’t yet know for certain whether the Year 6 group will go on the Erasmus exchange, but it would be brilliant for my eldest child to be exposed to real-life English in situations where he needs to be able to understand and respond.

Our school has an Erasmus grant which ends this academic year (2027), so hopefully the teachers will consider the possibility of taking the children abroad and be strict in selecting those who are ready to go, because the previous experience in Gredos showed that maturity is essential for this sort of experience. This is all the more true when it comes to travelling abroad, thousands of kilometres from home, without your parents and in a language that is not your mother tongue.

We know that it is crucial for children going on an international experience but have strong communication skills and a motivation and well behavour  to learn the language, above all so that the funding provided by the EU for this purpose is put to good use.

To get better in communication, at home we spend too much hours given extra support to our kids. So that, we  continue to work hard with them, using activities at home that encourage communication.

The activities are developped from the vocabulary and grammar in each lesson. 

In this case, we uploaded the vocabulary and grammar from "Unit O" you have here:

VOCABULARY:

• China -->Chinese
• France -->french
• Morocco --> moroccan
• Poland -->polish
• The UK the USA --> americain
• Spain -->spanish
• Italy -->italian
• Portugal -->portuguese
• Germany -->german
• Belgium-->belgian

GRAMMAR:

To be good/bad at + ing. 

•  We are good at playing chess.
•  Are you good at speaking German?
•  She is bad at playing the piano.

Where are you from? I’m from + country. I’m + nationality.

 And we have developped thanks to the IA activities to improve reading, listening and speaking using structures and vocabulary from that lesson, here the exemples:

READING&WRITING.

Hello! My name is Pablo and I am eleven years old. I live in Spain, so I am Spanish. Every summer, I go to an international youth camp in Europe where I meet children from many different countries! My best friend at the camp is Pierre. He is from France, so he is French. Pierre is very creative; he is really good at playing the piano and drawing, but he is bad at playing basketball. I also have a great friend named Maya. She is from Morocco, so she is Moroccan. She speaks three languages! She is very good at speaking German and English. However, she is a bit bad at playing chess. As for me, I love sports! I am good at playing football and swimming, but I am bad at cooking

LISTENING (generated with IA)

https://gemini.google.com/share/2367532ecf20?skid=ac1c9946-ee4d-49da-abf8-b5602795ad71

SPEAKING

About yourself you need to explain:

• I (am).... (name)
• I am from (country); So I am ...(nationality)
• I am ....(age) years old
• I stydy at (school)
• I am good at (verb+ing)
• I am bad at (verb +ing)

Describing situations...

At-Home Reinforcement Workbook

Like every September, I’ve spent several days preparing supplementary materials for practicing English at home.

My kids have an excellent teacher who leads many interesting projects; this means we do a lot of work at home on grammar, vocabulary, and communication as a way to prepare them to put all their English communication skills into practice.

Last school year, my oldest son went on a language immersion program with her and loved it. According to his teachers, he made the most of the experience and has shown enough maturity for a language immersion experience abroad.

For years now, we’ve been dedicating a lot of time and resources to helping both of them (the older one in 6th grade and the younger one in 5th grade) develop communication skills and the independence to interact with others in English.

In the near future, we’re going to Milan, and I hope to see them interacting in English in everyday situations like basic shopping, asking for directions, and making suggestions…

Today I finished the workbook of supplementary materials that I prepare every year at the beginning of the school year. The idea is to work on expressions and communication skills—both oral and written.

I used the textbook they’re required to use at school to create this workbook. It’s a lot of work to put together, but then you don’t have to go looking for “worksheets” made by others that are probably less suited to the topics in the school textbook.

I’m sharing the first few pages so you can see what it looks like.

We use this resource along with Genially and the worksheets provided by our child’s teacher, the English reading books that have been a regular part of our home life for years, and the classes and projects offered at the school of communication and linguistics they attend—INFIL.

Last book we have bought are:

Nothing is too much when our goal is real communication and linguistic autonomy.

30 children is a lot of children

30 children is a lot of children.

30 children of all ages, all keen to have fun, are a huge challenge.

The day before yesterday, we held a lovely workshop at the Chiringuito in Aldehuela de Yeltes.

We introduced all the children in the village to the excellent recipe book "Las recetas de Brownie" by Ester, Luci’s daughter-in-law and a neighbour from Aldehuela.

We then read out one of the recipes – specifically ‘Pancakes’ – and worked together to make the batter.

This meant we had enough batter for every boy and girl to enjoy at least one pancake.

We rounded off the workshop with a go at the chocolate coulant from the book, and the children had a brilliant time making lollipops out of fruit or marshmallows, dipped in chocolate.

We had a brilliant time,

30 children is a lot of children, but cultural activities shouldn’t be denied to children in villages.

And Today Álvar and Martín were having a summarize of the activity in english...They had study food vocabulary at school and They know very well irregular verbs in present and inn past....the famous list!...but we put It into practice It in the real context They lived two days ago.

So, They have written about the experience twelve lines and here you have what Álvar has written and After reading aloud.

Link audio

Here the script:

Football World Cup

Today we were doing our BEST in reading  comprehensión and creation activities.

We were using a fantastic ressource about the World Cup.

It is a fantastic way of learning with focusing in their interests

And tomorrow we will finish with simetry activities and drawing tasks.

 After that, they Will explain the meaning of their creations. 

Here my kids working hard:

Workshop "Go Spain"

 

English time, World Cup 2026

History. 

Every few years, in a different country around the world, there's a big sports competition. It's like the Olympics but only for one sport. The most popular sport in the world! What do you know about the history of the FIFA World Cup?.

World cup 2026 ( listening)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/videos/cq51d9d97wno

Fun Facts World Cup 2026. (Reading)

Fact 1. Expanded Tournament, More Excitement

With 48 teams and 104 matches, this World Cup will be the largest edition yet, offering more chances for upsets and underdog stories!

Fact 2. A Spectacle at the Final

For the very first time in World Cup history, the final will feature a halftime show, rather like to the Super Bowl. Coldplay is rumoured to be helping select the performers. Something to look forward to!

Fact 3. A Tri-Nation Hosting First

This is the first time three countries have shared hosting duties. While the United States and Mexico have hosted before, Canada will be hosting the men's World Cup for the first time ever.

Fun activities to do at home.

To develop pir creativity we are going to do a Big banner to encourage Spain.

Elements to use:

1. The golden cup.

2. Team Flags:

3. Mascotas.

4. Some useful expressions:

1. "Go Spain!" (¡Vamos España!)
2. "Let's go, Spain!" (¡Vamos, España!)
3. "Spain for the win!" (España a por la victoria / ¡A ganar, España! – Se suele abreviar en redes como FTW).
4. "VAMOS! (Yes, we can!)" (¡Vamos! ¡Sí podemos! – Mezclar el "Vamos" con inglés queda genial y tiene mucha fuerza).
5. Champions in the making!" (¡Futuros campeones!)
6. "Spain is unstoppable!" (¡España es imparable!)
7. "Red and Gold until the end!" (¡Roja y Oro hasta el final!)
8. "Believe in the Red Fury!" (¡Crean en la Furia Roja!)

Here some Exemples of It:

English in summer time, of course!!!

We’re kicking off the summer holidays and we’re really looking forward to it. We’ll be relaxing in the heart of the Dehesa Charra, spending time with friends from the village, family and wonderful neighbours.

We live in a village that’s buzzing with life in the summer; the council organises loads of activities. It’s impossible to get bored here!
We haven’t forgotten that learning requires perseverance and a desire to learn… and this summer we’ve already started working on reading, writing and problem-solving in English.
We’ve brought our library of English-language books to the village and have started reading one book a day together, out loud.
Reading aloud is absolutely vital for comprehension, and when it comes to a second language, it also helps to improve pronunciation and spoken fluency.
Yesterday we read Robin Hood and today we’ll be reading stories by Dickens adapted for Year 2 ESO level.

I’ll also be surprising you with a really cool series for 11-year-olds with a high level of English.
The series is called ‘Investigators’.

 
In addition, in the mornings I’ll be consolidating their comprehension and writing skills through simple scenarios in which they have to use sentence structures and recall vocabulary.

I have preapared a big notebook for summer time with spanish, maths and english tasks to do each day.

Álvar has had a relax year, he has  done little progess in learning in general subjects such as spanish or maths. We have done too much at home just to keep the learning progress he could follow.

Martín, has had some traditions teacher and he has worked too much this year...

Both need to practice at home, and my kids have luck...me and my husband are teachers...so learning at home, for them, It is quite easy!!!.

Here some of the tasks they have done:

In the summer it’s time to rest, but when we enjoy something, we love to keep learning… so we’ll carry on with #OneHourEnglishAtHome… but now we’ll be doing it every day.